Splashy Chef’s Coat

This project was of course for burning man. I was handed a chef’s coat and a handful of random fairy lights and EL Wire from Cool Neon and asked to “do something cool”. Because this was for burning man I wanted to be sure the design could be seen from all sides. and stand up to the running around biking and dancing.

For this project I used two sets of multi-colored battery operated fairy lights, monofilament thread and 10 feet of thin EL wire from Cool Neon in aqua. and patients. All the patients. I had thought this project was going to be two feature length movies*. It ended up being 3.

My friend Dr. Shiny was kind enough to model this before it went off the to the playa. While quite a bit shorter than the 6ft tall chef this was intended for I think she wears it well.More of Dr. Shiny.A shot in the darkClose up of the EL Wire wrapped with the fairy wire and sew down the the monofilament.Edge viewGutermann Invisible Thread. Tiny Mono-filament that is super curly and kind of a pain to sew with. But it is super strong and has a nice finish.Battery operated fairy lights. The wire is two strands of lacquer coated copper. Very flexible and the LEDs have lovely diffusion.